Re: New hardware advice please...

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From: tonyh
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:00

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Jeffrey S. Dutky wrote:
> 
> Skip the AGP for Linux, since X doesn't currently have good
> support for AGP, and AGP is a load of outdated hooey anyway
> (it is based on the premise that you don't have enough RAM
> on your video card and that RAM is expensive, neither of
> which is true nowadays)

OTOH, are there any actual problems with AGP versions of common cards?
Apart from that, putting a PCI card in a machine with an AGP socket is
wasting a PCI slot for the sake of saving peanuts in the cost.

-- 
TH

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Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/23
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